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A Bulletin of Contact and Information

for Students of Psychic Research and

Parapsychology.

Published by N., Meade Layne, M.A.

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Volume IV : No.3

MARCH 1948

ROUND ROBIN ; VOLUME IV - NO. 3 MARCH 1948

- TABLE OF CONTENTS-

THE WISDOM OF NATCHA (Interview with a trance Control) pp l- 3

The Alchemy of the Spirit (Memorandum of personal experi-

ences) -- by C.J.R. s™ © % "a 4- 6
He Predicted the "Saucers" . , by Vincent Gaddis . 7- 9
CONCERNING EVOLUTION . . by Millen Cooke 10-32
FATE MAGAZINE ("Cosmic Reporter) .. by Meade Layne 12-16

Correspondence, Clips & Quotes . . . ° . . ° 17-21

Kahuna Ideəs (from Tho Secret Science, by Max F.Long) .. -22
Professor Jaggar & the Seventh Vial . . . >œ 25-24

Shooting Goes on as Usual (American Theosophist). . oo W6
Parapsychology Bulletin -- A.R.E. Bulletin ` > ° ee 26
"Now the Long Rains" (Verse) . . by M.C.- = 's oe BT

Books, Periodicals, Advertisements . ° s - 29

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THE WISDOM OF NaTCHA

"I am Trimalki. I am the Rajah Natcha. I was a student at Oxford and a
ruler in India."

(Your Highness is most welcome here ... tell us this, if you will, tho it is
a somewhat personal question. You were a Prince of modern India, and no doubt
indoctrinated with the religion anc philosophy of your race, as well as with the
learning of the English Universities. Did this knowledge, acquired on this plane,
give you adequate preparation for thc experiences of life after death?)

"I shall say this: my instruction was unusually good for my time, and it so
prepared my mind that I was able to accept the unexpected with equanimity."

(You were enabled to accept the unexpected} There was a great deal, then,
in your after-death experience, which was unexpected?)

"A great deal! A very great ceal!

"How can I make some of these things plain to you? If I tell you that I am
a force, a center of consciousness, would that convey anything to your minc?"

(It Goes not convey any image or picture.)

"Yet that is what we are. It is true that there are levels of existence
whereon persons habitually make use of their human forms, and they often are
seen by you in such forms. But here where I am is the sphere of the formless.
Tho' I can assume a form when I will, I am nevertheless a formless center of
awareness."

(vill Trimalki reply to this? Is there, upon this earth of ours, any cult

minds to accept the unexpected with equanimity? For some of us are actually de-
sirous of learning the truth, so far as we can apprehend it,)

"There is none."

(Is this method we are employing here, of converse with persons on your side
of life, a good and useful method of acquiring right knowledge?)

"It is good. But I must warn you against receiving, in place of the follies
of your own ideas, the delusions of those who communicate with you. They may be
honest, and they are often correct, but they may report their own delusions also.
With this restriction, it is the best way of knowledge, except one."

(And that one is -~ Meditation?)
"Yes e "
(On your plane of being, is it possible for you to speak of this thing being

an illusion, and that thing a reality? Can you make this distinction, and on
what grounds can you make it?)

"On the grounds employed by yourselves in your world. The thing which ap-
pears to be a permanent external existent is called real: yet that only means
that it is a common or joint projection of many minds — that is, of the Cosmic
Mind acting as many indivicualized minds.

"Evolution, progress consists in escaping by degrees from the illusions, the
hypnotic spell of life of the lower planes."

So far, only, we oguote Trimalki, Rajah Natcha. We do not know, it is true,
just how great or small, how wise or foolish his earth-gained knowledge may have
been, tho, granting his identity, it is likely to have been the best obtainable
at the turn of our century. We draw the attention to his words, of those who are
Cisposed to evaluate them with reflective minds. Consider the immemorial wisdom
of the Hast, the still light of knowledge which shines from the universities of
England. Is this the best that they could do, for a princeling of India? That
they should prepare his mind 'to accent the unexpected with calmness?! Is not
such light rather a ‘darkness visible'? But, we asked him, "Is there any better
source of knowledge, of an established and recognised sort, upon our earth today"-
and he replied -- "None!"

What then, O Trimalki, of all our cults and creeds and systems? What of our
vast libraries of religion, theology, and philosophy? What of our thousands of
years of word-spinning, system builcing, cloud and cobweb gathering? What of the
ineffable experiences of mystics and holy men and ecstatics? What of the reve-
lations of the Seers, of the St. Johns and Emmanuels of all canons and catalogues
and faiths? More harshly still, what of the bold adventures of magicians and
occultists, workers of the Circle, meditators ‘in the towers of silence, explorers
of the astral paths? what of all the pageantries of ritual, of grades and degrees
and honors gained for the attainment of occult knowledge? At their best, at their
highest, at their truest -~ can all these put together do nothing more than to
prepare the mind to accept the unexpected with equanimity?

I myself, O Rajah Natcha, believe that you have said a true thing. But it
seems plain that very few will believe you. That is because you undermine and
cause to wither away everyman's little tended plot of charmed ground, of Eden-
garden, of faith-knowledge, of what he holds most true and Gear concerning this
and other lives and worlds to come. Because you, O Bodiless Center of Awareness,
come to us through the lips of this entranced spirit and say, tall that I learned
only prepared me against the unexvected', and also, 'in all your earth world there
is no source of right knowledge for these matters.' No, you will not be believed
in this, and especially will you not be loved! The sum of our knowledge is, in
your own phrase, that the unknown will become known, and the unexpected is to be
expected! Could you not leave us a single rag or fig leaf, O Focus of Conscious-
ness, against this exposure of indecencies of ignorance!

We upbraid Trimalki in seeming, that we may honor him for hard truth hardily
told. ‘Ye have tried to stand always for "realism" in psychic and occult studies =-
tho the very phrase provokes a smile among worshippers of Braggo, (god of scient-
ism), and this Rajah of India (like others of the communicators, too) is a realist
supreme. The first knowledge to be gained, is that of our own ignorance. The
first acceptance is that all other acceptances are worthless. This is a magnifi-
cent upshot, for ten thousand (or a million) years of human cerebration!! No,
he will not be popular, this Trimalki! No networks or studios will bid vast sums

for his soft-voiced insistencies. But perhaps here and there, in a few minds,
the knife of his pruning will cut clean and let sunlight in, the wind of his
Nay-saying blow mist and fog away.

Do not let me give the impression that His Highness offers us only futili-
ties end despair: he affirms that the goal and destiny of man lies in the en-
largement of his mind, the expansion and control of his awareness. This is the
meaning of the cosmic process, and it has no other conceivable by us.

Shall we add the apologia which, in spite of everything, still seems needful
for some RR readers? It is only to say that, so far in these seances, there is
nothing whatever to make one think that Trimalki (or a dozen others of his intel-
lectual equals) is a fraud, an impersonation, a split personality, an alternate
personality, or anything else except the independent, excarnate personality he
claims to be. Such an assumption is neither good science nor good sense, unless
and until there is something to justify it. (Yes, it is known to us that Doris
Fischer displayed multiple personality. Pater noster, nos patientiam da!)

After a year and a half of continued contact with the Mark P. controls, our
confidence in them increases; but it is each reacer's privilege to invent what
hypothesis he will, and welcome whatever dark suspicions come most pleasantly to
his minc, It is probably a most salutary fact, that there is no single item of
human experience, for which the minc of man (given free play) cannot propose at
least two alternative ‘explanations’. ne

- end -

"Spiritualism, as a cult, is about a century old. It is only in one sense to
be rogarded as 2 modern movement. More properly it is the modern dress of ancient
occultism. The main object of spiritu2lists is to əntər into communication with the
dead through the agency of mediums. The object of psychical research is quite
different. It is to investigate scientifically the phenomena called "occult", be-
cause it recognizes that through them may be studied the workings of those levels
of tha human personality which lie beneath the threshold of consciousness. By in-
vestigating these phenomena we have a chance of discovering regions of fact which
we shall never rench by exploring the external world ... It cannot be repeated too
often, that psychical research is 2 branch of science which progresses by means of
accurate information and experiment, and is not, as critics often say, an attempt
to "prove something." Spiritualism is quite different, for it is a cult an’ to
some extent 2 religion ... The public reads the material disseminated by spiritual-
ist groups but does not read the records of the Society for Psychical Research
with their mass of carefully recorded data. Public opinion fails to discriminate
between the two end id entifies psychical research with spiritualism. (And) even
men of science, and psychologists and philosophers, who should be directly inter-
ested (display the same) ignorance 2nd failure to discriminate... Though some
phenomena appeer trivial and foolish, we cannot afford to ignore them. The attitude
of being too proud to learn from the apparently trivial is not a wise one -- "

G.N.M. TYRRELL, The Personality of
Man. p. 45 ff pas. Pelican Books, Lon.
& N.Y.)

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- THE ALCHEMY OF Tr B SPT; TA ity sad

by
Professor Č. J. Ryan -
(Round Robin presents, by permission, a remarkable personal letter. When you

have read it, see if you do not agree with the brief comment wa have added at its
close).

Dear Frater:

After exactly three months I am beginning to do a little writing, but
with great caution, as I am far from well and have to keep in my room, mostly in bed
and with a hosvital nurse in attendance. For two months after the major operation
I was not allowed to read, and till lately my attempts to write were illegible. I
shali write this in small sections and hope that you can follow it. I am anxious
to give you some strange psychic experiences I had in the first weeks after the
oporation,as they were very peculiar, at least to me. For about four nights the
most painful dreams persecuted me, yet I could control them somewhat. One was very
singulier. I was fully conscious of being in my bed and watching the progress of a
Mexican revolution in this noighborhood. The procoedings were extremely interesting,
but the important thing to me was that I could stop it if I consented to keep entire-
ly still for some hours until a rescue force errived. I was in authority, but re-
ceiving instructions from some invisible source. The effort to koep still was tre -
mendous and caused me greater suffering than I ever remember experiencing in my life.
Not a finger was to be bent or an cye winked. Toward the end I was desperately
tempted to relieve the agonizing aching and abandon the watch, but each time thrust
down "Satan". Finally the reliof guard arrived, the people were saved, and I woke
astonished to find the pain gone. It was not really ‘awaking', as I was fully con -
scious all the time of the adventure 1 was watching, yet very actively participating
in. The other dreams were equally terrible for four nights at laast but I cannot re-

member them. The pain was -not caused by the healing of the surgical wounds as they
were quite bearable. *

But what followed was more interesting. For some time, two or threo weeks,
when perfectly awake and by day, the most striking tentertainment! of moving pictures
as it woro, would pass before me. This docs not sound very unusual under the circum-
stances, but tho details were, so far as I know, and approached 'projection' (7).

The pictures usually filled the back wall of the bedroom, moving across it from right
to left very slowly and surrounded by 1 frame. In noarly every case the contents of
of the picture did not move, but were soemingly enormously enlarged engravings
throvn on & screen made of astral materiel by some invisible apparatus. They were
about 150 years old, copper or steel engravings, the paper aged and stained hore and
there. Though so greatly onlarged (one covering the whole back wall),thoy were so
exquisitely finished that there was hardly any space between the lines. The subjects
were qurious; many were intoriors of 19th century rooms, paneled in oak in designs

of tho late 18th century. Dozens of the panels were shown on single shocts and they

* Words underscored by the RR Editor have been marked with tha asterisk *,

would melt into different designs (one of the real movements on the screen). One
showed a magnificent) room .withi:i splendidly bound books. Some did not scem to
be pictures but real places. The most striking were views in Gormany, of cities

with huge towering cathedrals, definitely larger than anything I ever saw (I have been
in Germany), but these were engravings. Nono were colored. Only one portrait appear-
od, and that was very strange. It was a small (about 18" x 24") engraving of my
father, dressed as I never saw him, but not in an unreasonable way. He had a kind of
smoking cap on, a thing he never wore, but he was holding a paint palette and brushes
and was much younger than I ever saw him. The engraving was quite normal but it had
an upside-down inscription in French on the background, and I used all my will power
to turn it round. It was gliding out of sight on the screen but I managed to stop it
and force it to return with the inscription the right way up. It insisted on moving
off after a brief time but I was able to call it back once. The inscription gave

his name and initials correctly, including one that he never used and is known to. no
one but me! The faco was very lifclike though not colored, and full of life and vi-
vacity, looking straight at me. He was much older than this when my first recolloct-
ion of him appears. The inscription stated that he was a well-known English artist
whose pictures were in many galleries. Ho was fuirly well-known and did exhibit wide-
ily. When I came to Point Loma I found one of his books (on Egyptian Art) in the San
Diego library. But no one in our family evor heard of an engraving of him being made,
thought; there are plenty of photographs.

The next sories of engravings were maps, any number of them, also oxquis-
itely engraved, but not one correct =- strangely distorted and with tho names all
wrong. Mostly of Japan and China, India, Indie and Europe = none of America. Each
covered the whole wall and was executod with the minutest detnil. And yot they look-
ed as if done by elementals who could only copy with the greatest inaccuracy, though
with extraordinary industry end superficial offect of reality. HiP.:B. spoaks of her
elemental doing such things (Old Diary Lervos - Olcott). In drosms such confused
effects occur, but I was fully swake.*

Now for an idea of the screen on which they were projected. I seemed to
walk dovm the room to the end of the bed and closely examine it, several times. I
got around the corner once and saw it as 2 large mass of ethereal substance, slight-
ly gray, in which tho 'embryos' or miniatures of the subjects in the pictures were
forming. They sottlod’down gradually from the third dimension to the second, and
the othereal vapors got flatter until they settled down as a flat sheet, on which
the landscapes, maps etc., were displayed, as on an ordinary movio screen. The
screen was usually about four fect from the bottom of the bed, but somotimes rested
on the back wall of the room. When it was near I could got to it an examine it as
naturally as if it were an ordinary picce of paper, every detail of the pictures
bearing the closest inspection, and 211 the dofects of the screen surface being
clearly seen. That was how I discovered how wonderfully detailed and perfectly exe-
cuted the engravings werc, even the crazy maps. In only one picture did a living
person appear. In the corner of a frame I could see into a distant room with desks
in it, the rost of tho space to the right being ohaotto ethoroal vapor. I was stend-
ing in the frame looking through a narrow oponing into the distant room. A living
woman walked in and stood in a contemplative attitude in the opening of tho back
room. Before I could spesxk to her the chaotic material moved in and hid the back
room and the woman. This is one of the very few occasions when + saw moving living
things on the screen, and in this casco I was inside the plane of the screen in
apparently an empty spot.

The engravings were apparently 211 German or French.

Now comes the most extraordinary thing about the pictures. They returned
many times for perhaps half an hour's display at irregular intervals, and + watched

them with great pleasure and interest. I was fully awake* and several times I could
seo them while I was talking to the nurse or to a visiting friend. My first trouble-
some weeks wore made quite bearable and really pleasant by thoso ‘visions’ = very
difforent from the agonizing dreams about midnight. None of the 'films' came at
night. Tho other thing is, that I could change tho pictures whon I used a great
effort, and reoall one - against somo definite, apparontly conscious prossure. And
when I forced one to come back or to go, the offort was accompanied by 2 dofinito
loud click in my hoad. Now, seo Muldoon's book on Projection, page 108, and you
will find that he speaks of this click, quoting from Carrington. Petty also mentions
it in Muldoon's Caso for Astral Projection. pago 137. This is very interesting as
it seems to indicate that the click is a known thing and not a mero fancy of my
‘inner performer! Do you know anything more about it?

I had several other interesting experiencos, but more of the nature ‘of
regular dreams, yet much more detailod and significant than any dreams I am used to.
In ono I found myself in France in esrly times, seeking to get matorial by psychos
metrizing a very ancient village in a wild, romoto hunting district, in order to
produce a play with local color of the early middlo ages. I soon got a vivid ox -
perience of a hunting scene in which one of the French kings Louis took part. He
was to moet tho Duke of Bergundy, and I arrived just as the two rulors began an
open=air picnic. I was told to wait a bit, and then I was taken by some of the
huntsmen to a place whero thoro were excollent provisions. I studied all the details
of the feast, the costumes etc., and was apparently really in tho picture of an
event happening in tho 10th century. I find that ona of tho Louis#s was very closo-
ly connected with the Duke of Bergundy ~ & fact I did not know.

(After giving various personal dotails, the letter concludes with the
following interesting postscript):

I forgot to say, that when I walked over to the 'film' showing one of the
maps with 2 magnifying glass to oxamine the exquisite detail, it would not onlarge
tho picture* = yet it was an astral magnifying glass! I wiles but am not quite
suro, thet & finally got & lens that would magnify!

- end =

Professor Ryan, as noarly all our readers know, is a scholar, an author,
and an artist of distinction; his scientific knowledge is extensivd and he holds a
professorship of astronomy in the Theosophical University at Covina. Hore we have
his own account, not designed for publication, of conscious, waking psychic experi-
ences of a remarkable order. Tho reader cannot fail to note tho moticulous and
critical observation and dispassionate judgmont, the cold recording of facts of ox-
perionco, and the completo absence of any doctrinnire interprotation of them. His
advanced years aro filled with intolloctual activity and clarity of insight, and the
lettor wo have quoted (written without thought of 'literary' offect) seems to us
a remarkably fine piece of scholarly roporting, in the truo spirit of science. . .
It is to these facts, even more than to the extraordinaryexperiences related, that
Round Robin invites attention and is happy to pay tribute. M.Le

wsaeawmewranvweane ent = == Cte et te ee ee ee ee OS

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HE PREDICTED THE "SAUCERS!"

by
Vincent H. Gadcis

Only one men definitely enu unmistakably nređicted the
coming of the "Flying Seucers" months aherc of their appear-
ence last summer. This man is Loren Gee, a businessman end
semi-vrofession:1 performer of mentelism, currently a resi-
cent of the State of Oklahoma.

Several months ago the writer, who is also a semi-pro-
fessional performer anc ə member of the International Brother-
hood of Megiciens, picked up the October, 1947, issue of the
"Linking Ring" -- official orgen of the above organization.
The follovineg facts were vresentec: A yo#r vreviously, in
October, 1946, Loren Gee, by previous arrengement méiled ə
registered letter containing a series of predictions, to
Eddie Clever, one of the editors of the megezine. Both men
are interested in the genuine aspects of prophecy, and this
arrangement wes made es a test of Hr. Gee's prophetic ahility.
The letter "rs left secled, its receipt duly witnessed, and
it was then locked awey. Shortly before the deadline for
the last October issue of the publication, Mr. Clever sent
the scaled letter to John Braun, of,.Cincinnati, 0., editor-
in-chief. Mr. Bramm onened the letter end arrenged for its
enpeerence in the megezine.

Dated Oct. 25, 1946, Mr. Gee's prediction told of in-
creasingly severe vorld-wide economic conditions, the need
for FPurovean rolief, the internel strife in Greece, the slow
but steady recovery of Janen, continued strained relations
with Russia, the end of suger retioning in the Spring of
1947, no cut in taxes, meny air accidents fone fetelity an
individual high in the diplomatic service), anc major fires
with heevy loss of life, end en unsuccessful attempt to as-
sessinate President Truman (not to be mede public until
efter the expiration of Mr. Truman's term).

Then ceme the following startling strtement: "During
the summer months (1947) there will be considerable ex-
citement end speculation concerning mysterious ohjects to
he seen in the sky hy hundreds of versons in various States
The true nature of the objects vill not be mece knorn to
the public until several years afterverd."

For weeks this nredictton nuzzlec the writer. Most of
the statements in the prophecy could heve been logically
inferred by the flow of events, but despite the "foo
lights" and the "ghost rockets" of Northern Furope, I could
not see how this prediction of an unprecedented wave of

GIB PRIPICTTD THF GAUCFRS -= Cont'd.) 8
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observations in this country could have been mace hy the use of
normal, rational deductions. I finally decided to write to Mr.
Gee, introducing myself both es a fellow-mesicien anc a student
of nsychie phenomena.

Mr. Gee replied with a series of lengthy letters, end we
ere now, in fact, steedy corresvondents. And, as I had sus-
pected, his amazing "saucer" pređiction had a supernormal
basis. He wrote: "The set of vredictions published in the
thinking Rinz! were, I iow en: è combination of thoughts re-
ceived by genuine extra-ssnsory pderceotion end others based on
reasoning, aoth phe al anc. unconscious. The prediction in
which you are interested, regarcing 'Flyine Ssucers,! can be
exnleined only es extra-sensory vdercendtion."

‘In general it may he steted thet Mr. Gee's imoressions
of the nature of the saucers or ciscs errea with those express-
ed ty the Mark P. controls. He believes that there is a race
of beings nearby, infinitely superior. to us in knowledse, yet
in some unexnleinahble way related to us. AĐsparently they have
a preset deel of interest end knowledge concerninz “hat soes on
upon this earth of ours, and they project influences to us,
yet vith a desire to refrain from actuel interference in men's
progress, if nossible. Perhaps the atomic age viil render
actual intervention necessary.

These beings are not spirits. Their messages, calm end
reessuring, seem to come from an outside non-humen source. They
ere silent watchers -- just heyond our ken. Mr. Gee strtes
thet he receives his imyressions in a relexec, almost Greem-
like state, but not a trence state. The messsges come in
"fleshes," usually at unexpectec moments, anc the revelations

ere entirely foreign to whatever he may he thinking of at the
moment. They cannot be received at vill and the phenomenon
is beyond the control of the will. .In other ords, he cannot
make a snecific pronkecy about a specific event, end making
up a set of predictions recuires much time. Nevertheless,
when the contact is estshlished, Mr. Gee can ask cuestans
anc receive definite replies. He discovered his ability àt
en early age, end it incressed as hè grew older. Many re-
markable nremonitions have occurred throughout his personal
life involvin® members of his family anc friends.

Mr. Gee has received the followin? information «bout
the discs: They are friendiy extra-terrestrial craft brought
by these intelligences for reconnaissance anc nerhaps to pre-
pare us for reveelment to come later. They ere much concern-
ec with current world conditions, especialiy since the cis-
covery of atomic power is consicered to be »vremature, end its
utilization 2s a weapon before it wes used othervise a defi-
nite set-back to progress.” They have been here before --

(HE PREDICTPD THF SAUCETS - Cont'd.) 9

meny times through the ages -- hut they have not been ready _
to reveal their true ~ pent Thet they vill come azsain with-
in 2 fer years -- "perhə` thouth unlikely, definite mess-

ages will he fiven then. g likely, stronger mentel ess-

ages, broedcast to those who may receive;thor, if necessery,
ait -ectly to some FRO are in ower." They are not "gods."
However, they «re so fer eherc of us thet they vould seem to
he sods; hence, for one reason, their hesitancy in showing
too much of their »nresencee. Their annearrnces in times nast
have indeed heen the foundation of some of our superstitions
enc religious beliefs.

Mr. Gee adds that "there is e Crestor, an infinite in-
telligence zrerter then they; thet Enis understanding is in-
comalete, thoush menifoldly more then ours; cnd that they do
not wish to tres unon his ground by permittinz us to look on
them as "rods," nor to direct our relivious beliefs --However,
I feel thet the idea of God as a strictly personal being is
rather nerrow, znd thet He is considered hy them as en all-
perveding spirit of intelligence anc soodness, not a person.
While they are concerne with us, others of them with lesser
inhabitents of other oLone iS, etc., there is one great reser-
voir of all intelligence, ¿nd Creator of all.

Additionel impressions ere thet the realm of these beings
is mich larger than our own, «nd that telepathy is a common-
place faculty smon* them. Moreover, they ere awere that here
enc there some humens are srovingly but surely ceveloning this
"extra" sense, ane to them are coming these messages of en-
couresement and information. ir. Gee suggests the »ossibility
of those who ere unusually develonec as telepathic recipients
forming a group to attempt unite contact vith these beings.
fs © result, ^na "hen they come again 2 few years hence, there
may he "revelations which may upset me ecuenimity of meny
scientists ane even religious leaders

As to Mr. Gee's orn ability - gs wes testec by Dr. J. B.
Rhine sne his associetes at Duke thaiwer's ity, and he attained one
of the highest, if not the highest, scores in ESP recentigni: eer
recorded by the investigators. He once mače 48 consecutive "calls!
without en error vith ESP cerds, enc from mother source Ilerrn
that he made another run’ vith 25 consecutive correct replies.
With this astonishing and proved evidence of his ahi ility, what
he has to say about his other imoressions is certeinly of im-
portance.

It wes only after Mr. Gee mede his revort to me that he ves
introduced to the Mark P. control eccounts as nublished in the
Round Robin end Flying Roll. Incevendently, Mr. Gee, who actual-
ly foretold the comin of the discs, had rerched the seme gen-
erel conclusions. Both evenues of information »oint to the
seme common source, end bhoth sources now tell us that the discs
will come agein, that in their coming there is hope, end that
even greater revelations lie ahead of us.

end

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=- CORCPSNING REVOLUTION -

Fvolution hes heen cescribed eces an teternal value! of life.
This is en idee hased upon partial observation of sensible nhe-
nomena. The conelusion has neon apndi ied ha as spiritual nature
of man and to the mind, also, until humanity is seid to enjoy a
three-fold evolution.

This is inconsistent with other assertions ‘nade hy the same
thinkers. If life is ONE, then its evé)ution bite be ONE, and if
this is admitted, then the so-called evolutions of mind and form
ere seen to he illusions that stem from incomplete observation
ane resultant faulty or vertical comprehension of the entire pic-
ture of:life, or worldly existence.

If evolution itself is not causal, it can hardly he called
en eternel value. It is both possible ond repsonable to think
of evolution as the by-product, within the field of illusion, of
an avparent reaction between two ciscriminated forms of energy,
sometimes called life and consciousness, matter-and spirit, and
other sunyosedly absolute opposites. It mey not nera oradceter-
mined plan, or even a ylanned operation (asa whole) takine eny
definite length of time for its accomplishment, It may not be an
end, anc it may not even be a means. Tt may be a by-product
which soneers whenever enlightenment, understanding, comprehens
illumination, awareness, initiation -- whatever you “wish to cal
it -- has teken nisce.

ion,
1
If that is so, it is the ash left wherevor there has been a
burning hetneen the tro enerries ~-- the Fire and fir of the Al-
chemists, end te study evolution in the hone of gaining further
enlichtenment is to probe the ashes in the hone of siscovering

the nature of fire or the truth ahout it.

For instances a man decides to climb a hill end look beyond
it. When he resches the peak from which he can see beyond, his
footsteps will form @ definite petiern strete hine from his feet
backward donn the mountainside to the place from «hich he start-
ed his climb. That pattern was not vre-ordained -- unless the
power to chocse is comnletely rejectec for human beings. Its
form was createc by a myriad trinsient causes that presented
themselves as he went along. Surely it not the only possible

is
patcern. It may not he the most practical pattern for onother
heing.

He misht have chosen any of e numher of other vathways, short
or lone, steen Or easier. Mowever, the nattern of his Steps mai sat
lead come ‘one to supnose after some study that Universal Intelli-
gence hed planned for steps to be taken in order to see beyond
hilltops: that man up there is seeing, or S80 we helieve, or Ac-
cept; therefore these steps of his must he The Proper Steps......

ik

onppose a winged creature, without investigating his orn
form end nature, subscribed to such an idea? What would he ever
mow or understand of his own particular form (illusion) of life
end consciousness if he netiently dunlicated the footsteps of a
different creature? Can onlightenment be gained by dowbling end
redoubling illusion? |

This, anc all other similes are inaccurate and inadecuate,
because enlightenment cannot be compared to eny experience linited
by sense impressions of space, time, form or eny other discriminated
concent.

Tllumination, in one sense, is the breaking down cf the barrier
between the concent of Life and the concept of Consciousness, under
what. over names they may apear in the mind. The barrier hes been
pointed out again «nd again by the world's creat teachers and
preechers «ho have sometimes given it disturbing descriptive names—
but, ectually, no such barrier exists as an external, objective
thing. It is thought to exist because neovle co not see their ex-
isvence in the worlds in its entirety and cannet, therefore, otal-
uite itv as a whole, completely. ‘They compare what appesr toa them
to he its various parts -- the fragments of which they ere willing
(choose) to be conscious or aware,

Examination of the revelations shows that neonle čo not
evolve from a little self to a great self unless they willfully
(oy choice) make the erfort ta do so hy attachine themselves to
karmic influences. When they do so, the result is the same as if
a begzar, siceping in 2 ditch, dreamed of himself as a great king
who had conquered the vorld. From one noint of view the evolution
and concuest are as resl as rice. However, from a wider noint of
view thet includes more of the 'whole! their renlity hecomes open
to some ouestion. i

Bvolucion, then, is the business of illusion. It mey have
the effect of increasing the probabilities in favor of enlighten-
ment much as practise at an instrument will increase the nrahahil-
itves Of & musician's hitting the right note at the right time,
but the practise does not produces the music itself, much as it

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may help to meake other pveonle aware of music.

and

As it is, the focus of world interest is turning upon psychology as never bē-

fore. Of sll the branches of scienco, tho study of human nature must be vigorously
end carnostly promoted by ell the moans available, if the world chaos of which we
have boen solomnly warned and shockingly reminded is to be avoidod ... Big changes,
fundamental ones, nre due in psychology. “ith the psychocontric view of man ostab -
lished, psychology becomes once again, in a more significant sense, the science of
mental lifo. Man as a person is returned to the center of the psychological stage,
in plave of the behavioristic artifact, tho cerebro-centric robot, which had sup-
planted him ...

(J.B.Rhine, The Reach of the Mind, p. 208)

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FATE - Number 1, volume 1 of FATE magazine, a quarterly issued by the
Clark Publishing Company, 139 No. Clark St., Chicago 2, has

COSMIC REPORTER" made its long-heralded appearance = 128 pages of articles and
features, allegedly no fiction, and said to have as its real
purpose "reporting the unbiased truth." This "truth" however

consists of the new kind of news, which Round Robin nas for three years past been
thrusting upon its own readers - facts and events of more vast and vital import than
‘any economie depression, threat of war. or scientific achievement. "Uncommunicable
news" almost, of such desperate significance that neither press nor public under -
stands it, and no ordinary news channel will publicise it. Whether FATA will deal
with this material honestly, carefully, and intelligently, remains to be seen. The
requirements upon its editors are peculiar end difficult, and their responsibility
is serious. But the quality of this first issue justifies, it seems to us, our
present review, especially since some of the contributors and best friends of Round
Robin appear on its list of authors.

l- "I Did See the Flying Disks" is by Kenneth Arnold, business man and flyer who

on June 24 observed and reported the chain of nine discs between Mt. Rainier and

iite Adams. His account is short, factual and adequate. "Before the night was over"
he writes "I was receiving telephone calls from all parts of the world, and to dage

I have not received one call or one letter of scoffing or disbelief. The only dis -
belief I know of was printed in the papers. I look at this whole affair as not some-
thing funny ... to me it is mighty serious ... Though I openly invited an investiga-
tion by the Army and the FBI, I received no interest from these two important protect-
ive forces of our country until two weeks after my observation."

2. "What were the Doughnuts?" = by John C. Ross. is an analysis, with photographs,
of all military aircraft that even remotely resemble the "Discs". “If Kenneth
Arnold really did see the 'flying doughnuts’ and if they performed as he said the
did , I do not believe they were manufactured in the United States or in the Soviet
Union or even on the Planet Barth itself ... If he did see what he describes, it was
a train of space ships from some other planet." r. Ross is a science writer and

a special student of aircraft.

3, "The Mystery of the Flying Discs" is a 29-page article summing up a mass of
data and various strange happenings in connection with the Discs. Anybody who will
read this carefully, especially in comparison with the eight pages of data published
recently by the Fortean magazine DOUBT, and can still think the subject is either
illusory or unimportant, is mentally beneath the reach of evidence and argument. And
some items set forth in this article are oddly disquieting. Who made the anonymous
phone calls identifying the pilot and co-pilot hours before the army released the
names, of the officers killed in the crash of the B-25 carrying "classified Material"
believed to be fragments of a crashed Disc? Who told the United Press the details of
the conference going on at the same time, in room 502 of the Winthrop Hotel in Tacoma?
The room was ransacked for doncealed dictaphones. And why has so little attention
been given to the circumstantial story of Dahl and Crissman of the Tacoma Harbor
Patrol, who observed and photographed six of the Discs at comparitively close range,
on the afternoon of June 212 "Evidence uncovered by the editors of this magazine
prove that the army and navy and air-force Intelligence has been seriously hendi -
capped by the fiasco that resulted from newspaper publicity ... the matter became a
laaghing stock ... the net result of the newspaper debacle was a closing down of
thousands of possible sources of vital information"... This whole article is packed
with vital information - and the attitude of the American Press throughout the whole
effeiz to date has been one of criminal ignorance and contempt; there is no better
6xgiip.2 in history of its incredible stupidity and childishness.

4. In “Radio's Strangest ilystery", RR friend Vincent H. Gaddis writes of the "Mars
Messages" - a subject he also discussed in Flying Roll (companion publication to

Round Robin) for September 1947. The two accounts should be read in conjunction; they
contain practically all the available data on a very strange and possibiy very im -
portant happening.

5. In "Twenty Million iianiacs", G.H. Irwin deals with the problem of people who
"suffer the delusion of hearing voices". But this quoted phrase is from the title;
wr. Irwin himself says "these voices DO exist” and in the next sentence, "disbelief
in them is dangerous IF the voices do exist". Maybe yes, maybe no, says Mr. Irwin;
but he points to an alarming outburst of criminality which is associated with these
voices, whether they be fact or delusion. He is full of alarms and questions and
speculations =-=- and his one and only recourse is to invoke the aid of PSYCHIATRISTS -
who as a professional group are probably as ignorant, dogmatic and actually dangerous
as any similar organization can be. The answer to all psychiatric problems, includ-
ing "delusions" of voices, lies in psychic, spiritistic and occult research and
knowledge. This knowledge is possessed by a great number of people, but seldom indeed
does one find a psychiatrist who even knows that it exists, or will admit it if he
knows it; 99% of the M.D.'s are of course no better informed or more tolcrant. Nor

is there the slightest chance that the majority of these professicnal men ~ "guardians"
of the public health, will ever learn any better - since they have had their chance
and failed, time runs short and it is ‘later than we think.’ It is a great pity,
however, that writers as competent as ìir. Irwin cannot do more than cry Wolf-"olft"
and beg for psychiatrists (!) to rush to the rescue. Wickland spent forty years in
experimental w ork bearing on this question; he and scores of others accumulated
mountains of data which no 'psychiatrist' and few M.D.'s have even heard of = nor,
apparently, Mr. Irwin either. But oven the futility of his article is better than

no comment at all = since we venture to add that this situation he describes is far
more serious than he has yet dreamed of = and its roots are in soil where neither

he nor his allepotent 'psychiatrists' will ever learn to dig.

6. "Invisible Beings alk the Earth" = by R.J. Crescenzi. This article is strai-
ght spiritualism, and details convincing phenomena of physical and mental mediumship.
The author believes that "only about a fourth of the mediums are genuine", but
"only another fourth out-and-out fakes; the rest are "self-hypnotized, or work both
"through spirit andtheir objective selves." Our notion is, this estimate is wide of
the facts, but the matter is of mall importance anyway. We're interested in the
fact that FATE actually dares to print an article affirming flatly the reality of
survival and communication. All the phenomena described of course have been set
down hundreds of times before - along with a host of other facts equally well attest-
ed and much more sensational; but the public as a whole, and particularly the
scientifiction fans-& pulp-paper devotees have only the remotest inkling of such
facts (if any at all), and FATE does a good deed in a stupid world by te”lling the
story all over again where enthusiasts of scientism will maybe get hold of it.

7. In "Science and the Soul", Round Kobin friend Roger P. Graham defines science
and scientific method, believes that "if man is immortal we can find out", that it
is a problem for science and not for religion, and describes spiritualism, occultism,
and modern psychology as "three schools of thought"; he concludes that the whole
problem" properly belongs to science and science must accept it." RR editor, if re-
writing this article from his own point of view, would have to rephrase practically
every statement - but hails it as a triumphant and noteworthy event, that a physic-
ist and mathematician, of the mental calibre of Roger Graham, should declare that
the problem of the existance of the "soul" is one which "science must accept."

There's an article, too, on automatic writing, on construction secrets of the
great pyramid, on giants in ancient America, and some 15 other:shorts we cannot
mention here. On the whole, this first issue of FATE is admiratie. Can itseditors
maintain this standard? Do they really know real news =- the 'new' kind of news
when they see it, urgent and vital. The Discs (or Lokas as RR calls them) are

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an item of this quality - and the esitors of FATE are well aware of the fact. But we
have to add, there is no slightest hint anywhere of any explanation or solution of
their nature and mission =- if any. A few conjectures of the obvious sort =- secret
military craft, or interplanetary ships. And no mention of the great variety of
other strange craft, also now in our skies, certainly NOT discs or 'saucers' in con-
struction. _

hound liobin receives reports from time to time, from mediums and psychics, con-
cerning this matter. Singularly enough, none of these has yet declared the discs to
be 'space-ships' or interplanetary craft, and only one medium among those heard from
believes them to be secret military craft of earth origin. But neither do these per-
sons have any definite statement as to origin; most of their ‘visions' deal with the
construction of the discs and with the people said to be operating them.

But, as most of our readers know, the KR editors have been fortunate enough to
be able to work with a remarkable - and unpaid, non-professional - trance mediun,oMr.
Mark Probert. The seances have been carried on weekly for nearly three years; we
hold this medium in highest esteem, and so far have found the communicators to be in-
telligent and honorable persons. We do not conduct ‘message circles', nor make a
religionistic approach, nor regard our unseen friendé with awe and reverence as re-
positories of all knowledge. But we do listen attentively and critically, and feel
that we have learned much, in various ways. Now, these comnunicators have several
times discussed the Lokas or discs, and wehave printed what they had to say. Lately
they have somewhat emplified this, and we offer it here, also restating the substance
of their earlier statements. Our readers will accpet, or reject, or qualify the
alleged facts, each according to his own ways of thought. But we point out again,
that (to our knowledge) no other explanation of any of the strange craft has been
offered, apart from random guesses. The Authorities of government are reported to be
completely at a loss - yet here these strange craft are, and they have the world at
their mercy. The authorities know this, and they also know that if or when this
Visitation becomes a matter of everyman's knowledge, some explanation will have to
be found. The censorship will work up to a certain point, but after that the liabil-
ity to panic or international suspicion and fear will have to be reckoned with. If,
as is most probable, the true explanation cannot be come by, or cannot be made in -
telligible td those who govern us, or to the sapient science of our time, then some
story will have to be invented - and when this proves false, our last state will be
worse than the first. If the Invisible Ones, in whose hands the true governance of
our plane must rest, could but grant us at this juncture the leadership of men in-
structed not only in the physical sciences, but in occult and spiritistic knowledge
as well, perhaps some way could be found out of this impasse. As it is, our civili-
zation, "that old bitch gone in the teeth" is about to suffer an impact which it has
no resources to meet. The war which is in the making has these phenomena as its
forerunner, and as its accompaniament-to-be. "Scattered swimmers in the vasty deep"
are those who can understand and accept these present and impending events; for the
masses of us complacency and old acceptances draw rapidly to their end. We do not
ery Alarm - we are NOT sensationalizing these matters. The Round Robin editors and
contributors write for a limited public, nearly all of whom are liberal, informed
and critical, and they are not hampered by any allegiances or by desire for profit-
making. We speak of facts according to the best information available, and comment
on them according to our measure of understanding.

What have the communicators of the Mark P. seances said about the Lokas or
discs in the past? They have made no claim to complete knowledge, but there has been
no disagreement on basic facts. The Lokas are not man-made or earth-made, and they
do not come from a planetas we understand that word. They do not come from any realm
of dense matter. They issue from an etheric world, which this writer believes is one
of the "Lokas" described by Oriental thinkers. The people who build and operate
them are NOT discarnate humans, and NOT inhabitants of the "Astral". The\discs are

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constructed first of all, as to pattern or design, by cooperative thought action of
#therean engineers. The matter of the etheric world can be manipulated by thought-
energy. This construction can then be filled out, so to speak, by particles of dense
matter from our own world - that is to say, it ‘materializes'. When it does this, it
becomes visible to our sight and can operate in our sphere of existance. These con -
cepts are elementary to occult thinking - however great the ignorance of scientism
may be concerning them. Some of the discs carry a crew, others (probably the very
small ones) are managed by remote control, though in a manner unfamiliar to us. This
probably accounts for their singular mode of flight (at times) in a kind of tandem
formation. It is possible for them to suffer accident while in our region of matter,
but both operators and discs can re-enter the etheric by reversing the process by
which they materialized here. So far, none of the factual data of observation is in-
consistent with this description.

Coming now to the great variety of strange craft, quite different in appearance
from the discs or Lokas, and which even some occultists have believed to be inter-
planetary space ships; the Communicators have lately been closely questioned about
these, and have declared emphatically that they have the same place and manner of
origin as do the discs. They simply represent a series of experiments by the Ether-
ians, at navigation in our atmosphere. ""hen you people of the earth plane invent
an aircraft or an engine, for instance" said one of the Controls, "you do not rest
content with it; you keep right on improving it and trying many different types and
models. These Ethereans do exactly the same."

But why are these visitors here? The Controls have agreed that the Ethereans
are not hostile - "But if they are attacked they will retaliate, and the result will
be the destruction of the attacker; they he.ve powerful armament." Their visits to
the earth are nothing new. "Even in my time" says a Control who claims to be an
ancient Chinese philosopher, "craft somewhat similar to these were seen. They have

made sporadic and occasional visits to the earth for thousands of years past."....
f "They have often come simply in quest of knowledge, just as you make expeditions
to far-off places, to the Polar regions or to central Asia --

"They are not here with intent to interfere in your affairs --

"Novertholess, if there is another world war, employing nuclear energies, they
may be forced to intervene. The release of the atomic forces has disturbed their
sphere of existance rather seriously --

"Let it be understood that if ever such intervention becomes necessary, it will
be wholly impersonal. There will be no taking of sides. It is contrary to the Law,
that any one plane should interfere with the processes by which another works out
its destiny.--

"They are vastly your superiors in science ~- though every plane has its special
forms of development and progress, so that we speak of differences, but not often of
superiority or inferiority --

"The #thereans are large people, up to 15 ft. in height. I would say that they
belong to the human order of evolution - that is, you would not call them Devas or
Nature Spirits. Yet the great forms you have seen and photographed, in the clouds
and on the surface of the earth also, somewhat resemble them --

"You ask why they are now suddenly present in large numbers. I shall tell you.
Always, when a civilization, a culture has reached its height and is destined to
collapse, the Ethereans have appeared in numbers. They come to make examination and
final record, for their own knowledge, of the status of that civilization =- somewhat
as you might do with disappearing tribes and races. And it is true also that they
have been alerted and disturbed by your release of atomic energies. But all past
civilizations and races have had their day, and failed in some way, and passed out
of earth existance. So with your own civilkzation. The Etherean people came, and
observed, and made their historical records. So they they come now.

"They would communicate with you - if a signal system, preferably one using

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colored lights, were devised. But this probably will YOT take place, simply because
if anyone on your plane claimed to have dstablished such comaunication you would
put him in a strait-jecket. ~-

"Why is it so herd for your men of science at least to understand the exist -
ance of an etheric world? Everything which exists in your world came out of the
etheric =- materialized from an stheric form into dense matter."

This communicator, as has besn said, claims (for members of the group) a äis-
tinguished ‘identity. *Such assertiors arvo, obviously, ineapnbloe of proof. The only
question of real importance is the intrinsic nature of the communication =- the knowl-
edge and power of reasoning displayed, its bearing on other generally accepted data,
and the genoral tone and impression made by the whole personality. In 211 these re-
svects the Control we heve quoted ranks vory high - and it has been noticed that
other communicators refer to him with great respect, and accept his alloged identity.
And to repsat, the other Controls =- thut is, some half-dozen of them - have affirmed
the sams basic facts about the discs and the otherenn people; there is no disagree-
ment among them, so far as this perticular group is concerned.

The RR #ditors pass this information along to you, only reposting that we have
geined a good dogree of confidence in these communicators, though without attributing
to thom an omniscience they aro the first to disclaim. At lenst thoy should have
apportunities for knowledgo not accessible to us; hence, if they sare honest, we
should bes «ble to learn much from thom. Tha correctness of the facts they have given
us, or their falsity,cannot be detsrmincd by any moans save the fast-unfolding future.
Whst we believe or disboliéve personally, whnt this and that '‘authority' or ‘expert!
has to sey s:bout it, whet reiigionists mey declaim, or logicians infer or deduce hss
no value at all - or, his exactly the value you personally may attach to it, The
question of the Lokas, like the issues..of war or peece, or of vest seismic convul -
sions, will be settled by tho progress of events. But we cannot dismiss them fron
our minds, simply because, havtgg at least semiserational and reflective faoudtides, is
it is not in our human nature to do so.

- ond =-

Scance Reports:

As many of our roeders know, reports of the Mark P. seances have been issusd
at irregular intorvels, two or three months, in booklet form, about 30 pages earch.
Four of these have already appeared, No. V is now being mimeographed, and No. 6 will
follow within & few wesks ( shorter interval than usucl). It is our opinion that
the quality of these trance communications is steadily improving and thoir interest
increasing. The New Age Interpreter, tho kosmon Pionser, and several spirituslist
publications have given theso booklets favorable notice, and a woll-kmown scholar and
Thsosophice1 writer tells us thet "they moy yet como to be regarded as a classic" in
the sense of being a remrkable storehouse of meterial for students of psychical re-
search. Issue No. V contains important metter, and Issuc VI will cover four conso-
cutive sennces in which an attompt was mede to establish communication with an en-
tranced (hypnotized) subject in London. Th» English mediun was instructed, under
hypnosis, to visit tho Mark P. group in Sen Diugo, to act as 2 control for Mark
Probert, and to dolivor snd recvivi: code messages. Tho! the code was not transmitted,
much valueble information was obtnined. (Address RR for these Reports - $1.00 each) **

Se ee me e AS ee te ee eS ae aam aa a yy a AS ee eet eet ee net SE se ene nt et A Sind Sd ee te Oe se E

* The identity claimed by this Control will be given to anyone sufficiently curious
to inquiro: it has been withheld from publication by his own requcst = end probably
wisely so, since distinguished namos waken scepticism, often well justified.

** The phenomenn of these seances src: those of trance mediumship only =~ i.c.wholly
vcrbel communications; they «re not 'mossage circles! and not religiong-tLacnaturo,
nor ere they 'test seances', or designed to 'prove!' any particular thesis.

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(Correspondencé )
Mysterious Editor, Round Robin:
Lights ... I have read with at least average interest the reports on discs,

fire balls etc. Recently I have been wondering whether an experi -

ence of mine would be of any interest to you.

During part of the war I was in command of the U.S.S. Peridot PYc-18. In
1942-43 we were serving in the central Pacific. In 1943 a bombing raid was made on
“Wake Island. Vie were stationed approximately 50 miles south of MidwaysIstand, to act
as a picket and rescue ship for returning bombers. Late that night we saw flares, or
rather what we took to be flares. We assumed that these were being dropped by planes
trying to find their way back and proceeded in their direction. The lights continued
to appear on and off for perhaps an hour, during which time we chased after them, go-
ing so far as to give recognition signals on our searchlight. Fventually the lights
simply disappeared. The next day we returned to port and found no planes had been in
that area during the night and the authorities had no idea of what might have caused
such lights. Waturally I had taken the precaution of calling the crew to general
quarters. Probably twenty officers and men were topside, all of whom saw the ee.
“whatever they were, they were not a figment of my imagination.

Later, a similar experience again occurred. “e were patroling off Honolulu
when we saw similer lights somewhere east of us but apparently within the bounds of
Kaiwi Channel. ‘'e reported unidentified lights to the Patrol ‘rea Commander, and al-
most immediately after we went off the air another ship made a similar report. “e
were ordered to investigate, Several hours of running the channel produced no results.
Again we were informed ashore that there had been no planes showing the lights in the
area. I have no explanation of any kind to offer.

P.J. Rasch

(Mr. Rasch writes that he would like to obtain "a pamphlet or other inexpen -
sive publication on the Bell Witch." The book entitled The Bell “itch = a Mysterious
Spirit, was written by Charles Bailey Bell, M.D. of the Medical Department of the
University of Nashville; copyrighted by the author, 1934, no publisher given. T'e
recommend that persons wanting this book place a standing order with Occult Sciences
Library Service, 15 No. Maryland Ave., Atlantic City, N.J. =- also with Millie Lukes,
3006 Lake Park Ave., Chicago 16, Ill - and/or other responsible dealers. “e print
this inquiry on the chance that some reader may have a copy for sale, or some pertin-
ent information concerning this very mysterious case. Address Mr. Rasch at.715 “est
112th St., Los Angeles, 44, Calif.).

= oe ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee oe ee ee ee ee ee

February Round Round Robin Editor, Round Robin:
and the Huna una Concepts: Congratulations on the February issue of RR. It is the

best issue that I have read. The article on disease germs
is excellent and has opened new vistas for speculation, on my part at least. I have
been a spiritual healer (unpaid) for a number of yezrs, and will now have new con -
fidence in treating infectious diseases, as I can now understand the modus operandi
of spiritual healing in reference to germ-caused diseases.

All that I know of Huna is what I have read in your periodicals, but I have
sent for Mr. Long's book, so I hope to eventually know more about it. There is one
theorem in Huna, however, to which I take exception, and that is the concept of three
different entities occupying or controlling, or possibly manifesting through the same
vehicle would be more accurate. This reminds me of the mediaeval (and modern) theo-
logians concept of Deity - Father - Son-=- Holy Ghost.

Actually, man hes but one mind and the connotations of sub- and superconscious-

“ness are but expressions of the different levels of function. Thomas J. Hudson, in
~his "Law of Psychic Phenomena" is probably the originator of the concept of the

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COncept of the subconscious mind. But I do not think he ever had the concept of two
distinct minds in this connotation.

Personally I prefer the theosophical concept that man is a septenary being
while on the material plane. This counts the soul as being one of the seven bodies -
(which it is not). The soul, the entity, the auric egg, the I, is one and indivisi-
ble. The nomenclature of Huna, in dividing the I into three parts, while acceptable
as an expression of the different levels upon which consciousness functions, is con-
fusing to many students as it gives them the idea that multiple personalities mani-
fest through all of us =- which is not true except in cases of obsession.

I notice in RR an impatience with the 'masses'. Let me quote from Zanoni:
iiejnour tells Glyndon, "“hen wisdom contemplates humanity, the result is either com-
passion or disdain." ... 1, being one of the masses myself, have compassion for my
fellows who are deluded and preyed upon by both church and state, and give my full
measure of disdain to the intellectual fools whom I will no longer consort with.

While your periodicals may not have a large circulation, I am sure that they
go to the 'salt of the earth', and in upholding and spreading the light you are do-
ing a splendid and worthwhile job. - In friendship

B.F. Greenlee. 2322 Moerlein Ave.
Cincinnati 19, Ohio.

(Round Robin of course is neither a 'popular’ nor a 'high-browt publication,
but its Editors take great satisfaction/being able to hold the interest of highly
intelligent and widely informed students of psychic and occult matters. Except for
the basic facts of survival and communication, RR represents no cult and defends no
dogmas. If the data it presents are often 'sensational', the sensationalism is in
the facts themselves and not imported by RR in hope of adding to its circulation.
And our ‘impatience' is or should be always with the leaders of the masses = "blind
mouths/ Who creep and climb and intrude into the fold" =- the ‘intellectual fools' to
whom our correspondent also refers, and whose responsibility in the present world-
crisis is indeed a heavy one).

seer awe wee wee eee eee p amaa

Professor Twining's Editor Round Robin: |
Communication "The ideas expressed in the communication from
(RR = iV= 2). Professor Twining fit perfectly with the work I am try-

ing to do in this same field (psycho-physical theory)'
"t Between action and thought' (says the communicator) 'there are lacunae, or spaces
of at least comparitive inaction, momentary gaps of blankness.' He mentions mind
atoms and mental quanta. 'The stream of consciousness as understood by psychologists
is an illusion. Identity does not depend on or derive from continuity.’

If this is so, the perceptual mind, that section of consciousness through
which the entity recognizes an objective world, functions somewhat in the manner of
a stroboscope. If we look at rapidly moving machinery we see only a blur under
steady light. A stroboscope produces a brilliant but intermittent light. The duration
of illumination is very short, the periods of darkness are long. The periods of light
can be adjusted to the speed of the machinery so that it will appear to be stationary
or moving slowly, backward or forward. KORRE

Another analogy is a coaxial telephone cable. A large number of voices can be
carried both ways on this, and the unscrambling is done much the same way as when
the stroboscope 'stops' the machinery. The receiver is 'on' only during those inter-
vals when the wave pattern passing through the machine has the ‘impression' of the
transmitter. “hen receiver and transmitter are synchronized, all other waves falling
in the 'off' intervals are excluded. Radios work this way. “e imagine the carrier
wave makes the difference = but the same ether cafries them all; the carrier wave

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simply determines the 'off' and ‘ont intervals of transmitter and receiver..

Thus, the cosmos is conceived to be a mass of waves of energy, that the per-
ceptual mind winks on and off at such a frequency as to register only certain groups
of the cosmic wave patterns; the effect is to give us, the spiritual entity, a limit-
ed perception of them, which appears to us as a three-dimensional, physical world.
When one's perceiving mind gets out of step, one has 'hallucinations', because of see-
ing or sensing groups of waves we are not normally aware of. If we should lose the
t particulating! action of our minds, we would get all the stations, and the world
would be a mussed-up blur without meaning.

In my writing to ... I called a thought-atom by the name IDEO. In that idea we
have assumed a particle or a number of particles going around an axis, or axes, like
electrons in an atom. Mental electrons of this sort might perhaps be called METATRONS
or IDEOTRONS. .. i'm still chewing on Roger Graham's article in Flying Roll Delta II.
They all seem to be headed the same way. Something may come of this yet.

John A. Hilliard (Engineer).

(Round Robin is indebted to engineer Hilliard for the striking analogy of the
stroboscope, and for his very lucid thinking from the standpoint of the physical
sciences. “hen the time comes that scientific minds on both sides of the 'veil'- on
both planes of existance - can freely cooperate, and do so for right purposes, a new
life for mankind will be in the making.)

In lighter vein Advertisement appearing under Personals in “ashington Herald
of Feb. 3, 1948; "S4NYONE, anywhere, who saw a man become in-

visible eight years ago, on May 3, 1940, please write immediately to Virginia Daven-
port Hunt, 74 T St.,N.W., Wash.,D.C., as an invisible man has been with me for almost
eight years." ... Clip from hary Judith Hyde. ... ‘Anxious Inquirer’ asks Editor
about this: "Is the gal nuts?" ... Comment by #ditor: No comment!

London Daily Express prints a cable from Spain; reprinted by New Yorker: "A
Santander surgeon, Vicente Quintana, stated today that he and 29 other persons heard
a cat speak. He said: Just after the death of the cat's mistress Senora Tomasa Quin-
tana Gomezacebo, and while the family and friends were saying prayers, the cat kept
saying in a sad tone for ten minutes, ‘Let me alone. Shut up.’

"I believe" (said Dr. Quintana)"that this is merely a phenomenon, the animal
repeating words it heard an old family servant say, and I don't attach undue import-
ance to it."

Clip from urs Helen Lotreck. .. . All-inclusive comment bx Mrs H.L.- OH!
Further comment by RR Editor: AH-HA!

UP dispatch from RYE, England : iiine host of the Standard Inn here is worried
by a poltergeist, which overturns tables, scrambles bed sheets and scatters clothing-
experts of the SPR are on the watch ... superstitious folk say it's the ghost of a
mayor of Rye, murdered on the inn doorstep in the 14th century ... The real crux and
peril of this matter is, will the geist open the beer taps, maybe even start drinking
the stuff, now in short supply in England. (Clip from Mrs. H.Lotreck) -- Englishmen
have put up with a great deal from poltergeists, but there are LIMITS, sir! There
are LIMITS!

And from Stockholm, Sweden; one Bishop Bohlin orders investigation of spooks
and spooking "in a vicarage near a deep forest, when the moon was full" =- reported by
five clergymen, "very intelligent persons with a critical sense." -- Well, we have
advocated this for years; we mean, a systematic spooking of orthodox clergymen and
sceptical scientists, particularly of psychiatrists and M.D.'s. Thirty seconds with
a dampeclammy-hant can out~-argue 32 books-full of evidence, any time. (Clip from
Florence Wilcox).

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es Kosmon Pioneer - which does Round Robin the honor of frequently
== ; reprinting sclected articles, has two pages d.sling with "Etherean
items various Ships" in its March issue. "According to Pahspe, the:. are a
million varietios of fire=-ships, of sizea from ten milss across to
the breadth of a world. The different names of the ships are called after the manner
of their construction" (some 20 of which are cnumerated), and there are various meth-
ods of propulsion. Some are driven by "vibrating chords of music, others by colors
made in waves of sound, and their carrying capacitics "allow thousands of millions
to be transported at one time." -- Whatever one may think of Oahspe in other respects,
its descriptive and imaginative range probably oxceeds that of any other work ever
produced. -- Concerning tho "Space Ship" reprint on page 17 of this K.P. Bulletin,
RR wishes to add, for whatover tho reader may think it is worth, the emphatic state-
ment of the seanco controls (Mark P. scances) that the discs or Lokas and the other
air craft of entirely different construction, all come from the same source in the
etheric worlds, md are constructed by beings of the same order (Etheroans); they
merely ropresent different types of experimental development.

Journal of the British Interplanetnry Society (said to include "many prominent

British sciontists") has a long article on a "probable future race to establish bases
on the moon" with a resulting sanguinary struggle extending throughout the solar
system. kKecommoended reading for people who cannot find enough in our own terrestial
present and near ee about, nd for scientifiction enthusiasts generally.
(Clip from Mrs G.3.Lambert)

Ghostly Pips heads an item from sn Eureka (Calif.) paper of March 7., which
refers to e aroi Post be lle of the Landing Aids Experiment Station near that
city. The "pips" appear "without rhyme or reason on the radar scope when no plane is
in the air. The strange invisible objects always soem to move at 50 ater an hour.

Their presence cven baffles the invontors of ground radar control"(!! This appar-
ently is a visible aig a salt T in oms ' scopo, and hence different in some respects
from tho "radar ghosts" or "angels". Round Robin's "Astral News-Station" informs us,

the "angols" are semi-matorializations, or 'densifications' of tho finer forms of
matter existing in spaco ~ dense mattor in embrjc, so to speak. "het the "pips" may
be, the "baffled inventors! may be abls to tell & in time - or may not.

(Clip from George Hume)

N.Y. hinicha of March 5 concerns a "new volcano forming inside a huge glacier
on the south sido of Iceland" to the mlarm of Icelandic volcanologists. Blue flames
are shooting into the sky over a 3,280 square-mile glacier, in the vicinity of the
Myrdal volcano and close to dormant Laki, whose sruption killed 9,500 people in 1783.
"The Volcanoes Declare War" writes goologist Jaggar, whom we refer to on another
page - and in fact seismic disturbances are on the increase throughout the world.

(Clip from Mrs. Lambert)

Page Mr. Max Froedom Long - and tho ghosts of the Kahunes! News Week for Feb.
2 last prints 2 half-page on "Death Mystery in Hawaii". Thore have been 3B 'mystery
deaths, in Hawaii, of Filipinos, recent arrivals end long-time residents, from all
districts of the Philippines. About 80% of the bodies showed inflammation of the
pancreas, but medical experts arc "completely baffled" as to the cause. "Frightened
natives whispered that the Filipinos had been prayed to death through the voodoo
rites called Kahuna", but even this was doubted because "not one of the dead young
men was hatcd." We do not interprot - but for a look behind the scenes at the very
real life-and death magic of Polynesia, read Mr. Long's remarkable new book, The
Secret Science Bohind Miraclos.( Extract from this on another pago).

Poisoning, murdor, intomperate living, tho tropical "fluke" and other theories
have been eliminated by the investigators. All the men were between 32 and 38 years,
unmarried, laborers, in good health = and 211 dicd botween 1 and 4 o'clock a.m,

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"t, Ti
TEST C :; "Is Test GO to be Secret" is the headline of an article in Science

News Letter of February 7. The writer speculates as to whether "test
Charlie", originally planned for deep water off Bikini, will now be held in open sea
in the Eniwetok area, with effect on submarines as its principal object. "As a matter
of permanent policy, all press and radio observers are excluded from the Eniwetok
area.", and "top-secret atom bomb experiments are scheduled for this new mid-Pacific
proving ground." Whether the deep-water tost will be restored to the program is con-
jectural = but we would net put it past the authorities, who still have little com-
prehension of certain dangers involved. This area is said to be geologically un -
stable, and this is the yéar for which a distinguished volcanologist has predicted
earthquakes and eruptions ‘in the Pacific of extreme violence - "The Volcanoes Declare
War." It is, therefore, exactly the place and time for this further extremely dan-
gerous release of nuclear energios!! ... Whom the Gods would destroy --

In this connection we add a note sent to RR Editor "for your information" by
a well-known publicist: "The USA, whose motto should be changed from In God We
Trust, to We Stop at Nothing, is storing underground 200,000 TONS of A=Bombs"......
RR does not care to reprint sensational rumours, incapable of verification. In this
instance, however, the alleged facts are highly plausible and also of deep public
concern - both the Test C and the accumulation of the nuclear weapons.

Connecticut Rather a good ghost story comes in a clip from Hartford Times of
Geist +.. January 24, tells of happenings in an old mansion of Revolutionary

times. Georgie-the-Ghost is invisible, apparently harmless, but likes
to roll up window shades on six windows in succession, walks the hall at 3:00 a.m.
puts lighted cigarets in the ash tray, whistles, once washed and wiped the dishes -
and he, It or Something makes all the sounds of an automobile coming in onto the
driveway. Then a young woman, stranger, called at the house, said she lived there
as a child, and inquired "Is Mortimer still here?" = meaning "Georgie" of course.
Clip from Helen Monks, who thinks it is probably just a good story stretched in the
telling, but “worth passing on" =- with which RR agrees.

Odd Psychism: Mrs. H.ii. Plemon of Long Beach, Calif. (known to many RR readers)
— looks at newspaper photographs and immediately sees numerous faces
surrounding them, which she sketches in with pencil. Many of the faces are those of
children, the costumes, so far as visible, are usually old-fashioned. The "artist

on the other side" declares (by automatic writing) that the faces are those of
friends and relatives of the. person shown. "You see the lines as we form them. When
I draw here, it is one who stands by; you follow the lines most definitely". What-
ever the explanation may be, the faces are interesting and worth careful study. (Mrs
Plemon's address is 59 Atlantic Ave.).

Danger Areas: Mrs W.J.Shade (Rt.1, Marietta, Ohio) inquires whether Fr. FGH has

charted danger areas for other countries than the U.S. RR has no
such information, but inquiries addressed to "F.G.H., Care of Round Robin, 3615
Alexia Pl.,Seh Jiego, Calif." will be forwarded to him.

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Concerning tho Nature of the Comnlex and Healing

en ë eueeee a oemoer.

(From "The Secret Science Behind Miracles", by Max Freedom Long )*

“hat the doctors and psychologists have failed to see clearly is the rather
startling fact that the subconscious or low self is not the only one afflicted with
fixations of ideas - the complex,

Freud, Jung, Adler - all of them fixed their attention on the subconscious, not
realizing that the conscious self had similar and equally dangerous fixes.

The astounding fact is that almost all persons have CONSCIOUS BELI“F3 Oh OPINIONS
“HICH aki FULLY AS FIAWD 4S ARG THOSS OF THE LO™ SLF. ... Take the person who is
set in some political belief. He has passed beyond all appeals to common sense 2nd
logic .. (or) any of the millions who have accepted a religion, nd who close their
minds entirely against any possible change of their opinion. New facts, new findings,
or new circumstances make not the slightest impression on there individuals. They
have developed a complexed system of beliefs or opinions “HICH ARE SH4P4D BY BOTH
LOY AND MIDDLE SELF. .. If you wish to know whether ə. person has a complexed belief
belief which is shared by his low self, watch to see whether the emotions react to
any suggestion that the beliefs might be less than cofrect... The low self is the
only ons responsible for emotional reactions. The middle self reacts only with
logic and reasoning unless it is sntangled with the low self in holding complexed
views, in which case reason fails to function as emotions flare.

A man's political complexes, fortunately, seldom react on his health. His relig-
ious fixations frequently cause endless illness end misfortune.

fhe Kahunas knew what the psychoanalyst has overlooked to ə painful oxtent. It
is the fact that when a man has "sinned", and his low and middle self agrae that he
has sinned, ths low self may have a fixed idea that punishment must be given for sin.
If this is the case, the low self may set about punishing the man through illness or .
accident,

(The author then cites the case of a young man who had a shared guilt complex
of this kind, over his decision not to enter the ministry. He developed a dislikes
for every other occupation, and this amounted to a physical illness. The source of
these attacks of illness was pointed out to the patient, but no cure was effected
by doing so, for the reason that the complex was shared by both th» low and middle
selves ~- that is, the rsasoning mind was already involved in it. "Recovery came only
after the fixation was accented es immutable and a school for ministers entsred."
The need for an understanding of the single and dual complex is urgent; "one out of
every family of six will eventually need treatment on this core")

Present methods of treatment are far inferior to thoss used by the Kahunas",
and a complex which cannot be cured, yet is not allowed to have its way, "creates a
house divided against itself, which certainly will fall - into insanity or chronic
invalidism. Dr. ddward S. Cowles said a few years ago, that mental conflicts caused
by fixations were the direct cause of the steady lowering of nerve energy, which if
continued ended in disaster.". This lowering "turns to a feeling of depression"
and may lead into hysteria, fear, nervous break-down, mania and psychosis."

It might be added (Mr. Long continues) that during the gradual depletion there
is always danger that s poltergeist type of low salf which has been separated from
its middle self may drive out the selves of the ailing body and obsess it ...”ith
violent death so fraquent in the two world wars, it is inevitable that there are
more of these ghostly low self spirits waiting a chance to seize a body .. (there is)
an alarming increase of insanity...In self defense we need to learn the Kahuna methods
for combatting this .."

* Ch.xiv, pp. 244 ff. RR will continue with this and other
highly important portions of itr. Long's new book, in later issues. Kosmon Press,
2208 ™. llth. Los Angeles 6. Price %4.00).

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Dr. Jaggar - Mrs. S.HeA. of Coronado, Calif., sends us a 4-page clip from
and the an unidentified* magazine, dealing with the predictions of scien-
Seventh Vial! tist Thomas Augustus Jaggar, presently of the University of

Hawaii, concerning probable seismic disturbances during 1948. *

This Dr. - Professor Jaggar "is probably the most learned man
in the world on the subject of volcanoes, also a recognized authority on earth-
quakes and tidal waves" and has a highly distinguished academic record. He is
said to have predicted with considerable accuracy the eruption and lava flow of
Mauna Loa (Nov. 1935), also the repeat eruption of lava dust from Kilauea in
1907, and the Pelee cataclysm of 1902 (within four days), He has studied vol-
canic action by firsthand observation in all parts of the world, and since 1911
has made intensive examination of the volcanoes of the Hawaiian group.

These studies reveal that in 1948 the world in general and Hawaii in particu-
lar "will experience the most terrific series of explosions that living man has
yet known." The eruptions in Hawaii will be almost simultaneous with "a tremen-
dous explosion of Tomburo in Japan", and volcanic activity on Tin Can Island,
famous lava bed of the Polynesian chain, will also reach a crisis at the same
time. "Ye are far from understanding the earth in its relations to tides and
seasons" says Dr. Jaggar, "but the solid globe has a tide and the lava has a
tide. In Hawaii and Australia the earth indulges in seasonal tipping, end in
al1 volcanoes where the lava is visible there are physical records of decades-
long cycles of activity." Dr. Jaggar"sees scant hope of avoiding huge loss of
life and property in the forthcoming eruptions and quakes, some of which will ©
come in surprising locations."

All this is a cold-blooded statement of probabilities as seen by a great sci-
entific authority, who has a remarkable record of accuracy in similar forecasts.

And one need not be mystically inclined, to believe that coming events cast
shadows before them. The minc of man, which in mysterious ways transcends time
and space, becomes aware of these shacows, though perhaps only as creams,
visions, presentiments anc the stirring of deep instincts. We are selcom wise
enough to interpret these at their correct value, but it is very foolish to take
no note of them at all. So in this instance we append a few items, though with-
out giving names. We can only assure our readers that they come from persons
known to the Ecitor, anc in whom he has conficence. The incicents themselves
can be vouched for, though they cannot be evaluated, anc they seem to connect
with the forecasts made by Professor Jaggar.

(1) A psychic sensitive and excellent clairvoyant of good character, tells
the Editor: "I was aware that I was standing ina street in Santa Barbara, and
afterward on a house top in the same city, and I saw the water filling all the
streets, coming in from the sea and rising higher and higher... Some two months
later I suddenly seemed to be standing on a peak of the coast range mountains,
and looking out toward the west, and everywhere there was water and nothing else,
and no houses or living things to be seen. But I have no knowledge as to when
this condition will come about..."

(2) & civilian employee of the Navy writes, that three fellow employees have
recently experienced "very vivid dreams of seeing the Station under water and the
workers trying frantically to find means of escape." This Station is near San
Diego, Calif. "None of these people has ever heard of occultism... One of them
Saw water creeping down the streets and all the houses standing empty."

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— == - -

*The magazine has been identified as a recent issue of PAGEANT (probably Jan.1,'48

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(3) A correspondent of RR writes of having had as dimer partner a "well-
known psychic" who "talked to me for more than an hour about occult matters and
predictions and said: 'San Diego will suffer the results of a very severe earth-
quake. Some of the cliffs of Mission Hills (sic) will topple into the bay. The
epicenter of the quake will be San Bernardino where the court house will be en-
gulfed. Coronado will not be destroyed because it will ride like a cork.'"

Eruptions and quakes of great intensity in the Pacific might cause huge tidal
waves as far away as the California coast; in addition it is almost certain that
there would be earthquakes originating in the west coast area itself — and, as
Dr. Jaggar says, in other "surprising locations". -- Though we have no statistics
Comparative or otherwise, it seems certain that the press of the U.S. has reported
a surprising number of earthquakes during the last few months. According to Dr,
Jaggar again, "we are approaching the end of the 132-year world-cycle heretofore
followed by the Fujiyama and Sakurajima chains, as well as the Hawaiian chain.

The next sunspot cycle, which usually corresponds with such eruptions, is culmi-
nating." Active volcanoes have a cycle of about 132 years, and the half, quar-
ter, and eighth periods also are significant. -~-Small wonder that "the Hawaiians
are uneasy about Jaggar's predictions," --Ass to the "occult" side of these mat-
ters; the cyclic law or laws of which esotericists make much quite naturally is
both physical and supernhysical; the facts may be expressed in different termi-
nologies, but to suppose there is any real separation of the two is neither good
science nor intelligible philosophy.

Some of our readers infer, from the fact that we have published maps of zones
of danger and comparative safety with reference to a predicted third (and last)
world war, that RR is "advising" flight into these latter regions. But RR is
NOT advising anybody to do anything of a specific sort; we merely pass on to our
readers certain predictions, facts, and alleged facts for their information.
Very few people indeed will be in a position to flee either from war or from
convulsions of Nature, and anything like mass evacuation of cities or danger
zones is impossible, IF the populace and the authorities alike had advance in-
formation, which was accurate, and thoroughly accepted by them, with even two
or three years leeway, something could be done in the way of human and indus-
trial salvage (tho' not very much, at that); but these preconditions cannot
possibly be met. Perhaps you -- and you ~~ IF you are sufficiently convinced
and impressed, and determined to survive, will work out some plan of your own
and actually do something about it. But our guess is, that you won't.

o mm e wrote nw ww BM u a l X M oe awe ewe

HUNA STUDY AND EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS: Persons interested in this subject should
first of all read the basic text (Secret Science Behind Miracles), and take note
of study suggestion on pp 367 - 569. If a group can be formed, the members should
choose a leader, a secretary and a treasurer, and arrange for regular meetings.
Sm2ll1 HUNA pamphlets (32pp) may be had for a dollar a dozen, and membership cards
will be issued. WO OBLIGATION is assumed, except the promise to help push for-
ward Huna investigation and to spread information concerning it. Study material
for group use is being prepared as rapidly as possible. Write to Max Freedom
Long, 702 No. Cherokee Ave., Los Angeles 38, stating your interest in individual
or group stdy. The book, Secret Science, is published by the Kosmon Press, 2208
W. llth, Los Angeles 6. ($4.00)

Round Robin takes pleasure in assuring its readers that the formation of BUNA
study groups is NOT a profitemaking scheme; it is an attempt to spread abroad and
utilize certain extremely valuable material. Nevertheless, in our opinion all
study groups should certainly contribute something toward the constant expense of
printing end mailing HUNA meterial - and should try to interest friends and ac-
quaintances in this important psycho-educationsl project.

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"Shooting Goes This fall the staggering total of 13,000,000 hunters, an all-

time record, will fire into woods and fields so bankrupt of

on as Usual" game that 50 specics have been reduced to extinction or are in
imminent danger of it.

by
Bertha Williams ".» Even the deer, most numerous of all big game, has been
reduced to one quarter of its former grazing range...

"Three times 2s many duck hunters as there were four seasons ago will turn
out for the fall shooting...and even though the bird census revealed the hugest
one~year decline in history, shooting will go on virtually as usual."

The shocking statements quoted above, together with others no less shocking,
appeared on Sunday, October 19, in the magazine section of a daily newspapcr.
"What is Happening to Our Wild Life?" was the question asked and answered by Bob
Deindorfer. "What is happening to america, and to America's citizens?" is a
question which might well follow.

Not upon hunting alone, of course, can be blamed the present wild life situ-
ation. "Both small and large game have been reduced," states the author quoted,
"by drought, starvation, disease, climate, predators, inadequate grazing land,
reduced timberland, bungling administrations, warped conservation measures and
illegal slaughtering." But hunting, legal and illegal slaughtering, has taken
heavy toll and will apparently continue to do so.

"The most lawless era in our outdoor history" is what Mr. Deindorfer terms
the present.

And what of our indoor history? To answer that query in respect to animals,
we must realize what is happening in the experiment halls of "science" and in
the slaughter houses. In 1946, so one advertiser states, forty-three million
animals were slaughtered for food. How many million others were murdered by the
slow tortures of vivisection, it might be more comfortable not to remember.

Man-made law is not overmuch respected; too often it harbors injustice and
deceit. But let 2 man once have some inkling of the law of karma, the law which
never fails, and the story will be different. Let a man realize that he does
not profit ət the expense of any other mortal being, and he must begin to think
twice in regard to sports, food, health and all that makes up his daily round.
Let a man once glimpse the idea of the One Life -- will shooting still go on as
usual?

From the December, 1947 issue of
THE AMERICAN THEOSOPHIST, Wheaton, Ill.

Too late for more extended notice in this issue, RR has received "The Person-
elity of Man", G.N.M. Tyrell, from Dorothea Frood; "The Guru", Manly Palmer Hall,
gift of Mr. Thos. Robertson; "They", by Marien S. Bush, gift of Mrs Lue Salter;
"MMM = Men, Minerals, and Masters", Charles W. Littlefield, from Vivian C. Brinkley.
Our deep appreciation of these and many former gifts and loans; we hope to make
comment on "They" in next RR, and on the "MMM" in next issue of Flying Roll, about
end of this month. RR is anxious to buy or borrow the other, earlier books of
C..Littlefield, and to locate any critic2l references to his thesis, that the
formation of microscopic crystals can be affected by mental energy directed thru
mantrams.

Parapsychology "In May of this year, four talks on parapsychology by four for-
mer presidents of the English Society for Psychical Research were
Bulletin broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation, They were

given on the "Thirc Program! uncer the general heading "The Im-
plications of Psychical Research." The first adcress, "The Philosophical Impli-
cations of Telepathy," was given by Professor H.H.Price, Wykeham Professor of
Logic at the University of Oxford. The second was "The Philosophical Implications
of Precognition," by Professor C.D.Broad, Knizhtbridge Professor of Moral Philo-
sophy at the University of Cambridge. The third was "Psychical Research — the
Next Step," by Dr. Robert H. Thouless of the Department of Education, University
of Cambridge; andthe fourth was "The Implications of Psychical Research," by Mr.
G.N.M.Tyrrell, outstanding investigator and writer in the field of psychical re-
search." .

"A new English publication to be called ENQUIRY will soon be introduced to
American readers who are interested in parapsychology. The magazine is designed
to 'meet the need for inquiry into ane interpretation of the immensely rich and
varied material that in recent years has been accumulating in the field (of psy-
chical research) and to provide a printed forum for discussion." The first issue
is scheduled for December, and the editor, Alfred Ridgeway, promises that contri-
butiors and subscribers will include scholars of high academic distinction. The
editorial panel at present consists of Dr. Donald “lest, iir. G.N.M.Tyrrell, Dr. L.
P.Jacks, Dr. C.E.M.Joad, Prof. H.H.Price, and Prof. C.G.Jung."

(The Parapsychology Bulletin is published at College Sta.,Durham, N.C.

A.R.E. Bulletin: "in the latter part of this chapter Dr, Rhine comes forward

with the issue rnised in the scientific mind which exemines the
ESP findings. He says 'It is fear more than anything else, that blocks scientific
acceptance of psi phenomena ... Scientific men see that if they accept ESP and PK
they will have to recognize the non-physical nature of these phenomena; this step,
then, poses & serious problem to the scientist. The acceptance of non-physical
action would admit two kinds of reality and divide his universe. Such a step looks
to him like retrogression, ® throwback to the days of superncturalism'

Hugh Lynn Cayce, in his review of The Reach of the
Mind, in ARE Bulletin, Jan. 1948.

(RR would add, that while Dr. Rhine states tho situation correctly - that is,
as the average scientific worker thinks about it, the expressions involved rre
naive, populer, and wholly non-critical. What is meant by ‘non-physical nature'
as opposed to the 'physical'? To the 'scientific' naivete of the mid-l9th century
the physical was 2n indivisible bullet-like atom, or the measureable pull of
gravity or a magnetic field. But who invented this childlike notion, that the mind,
for instance, was any less ‘'reel' than the objects it perceives. It was the
scientists themselves (incapable of critical thinking) who invenfced this dichotomy,
en utterly artificial division of reclity, or limitation of reality; and now they
are fearful and perplexed becouse Nature and commonsense will have nothing to do
with it. .. No one in his senses questions the brilliant achievements of science,
but that has nothing to do with this matter. The point is, that any scientist
who tries to think bout besic concepts has to use metaphysical and philosophic
terms - keality, physical, nature, force, consciousness, life, time, causation,
space, matter, electricity, ether - and usds them, nine times out of ten, with
all the glib inaccuracy of a high school sophomore, actually imagines that he is
saying something intolligiblo, and is sinugly contemptuous of anyone who points out
what an intellectual fog he is wrndering in. Perhaps a year of compulsory semantics
piusta féw ehapters of the Critique of Pure Reason and the Hegelian logic would
forestall some of the fears and tears to which Dr. Rhine refers ML)

27

NOW THE LONG RAINS —

Now the long rains come down. The hills are mist
And greyness, and a weterfell appesrs
Among dry stones. The strong oak branches twist

Against the wind, anda midnight wekes cld fears.

Out of some long deed and huried race
Hunting across the Eurovean plain
In thet green strip below the glacier's face,

Something forgotten stirs in me egain.

'Back from the rushing torrent! Back from hills
That melt and menace! Beck to nurse a fleme
Naked upon a hearth!! The old voice chills

With rising horror -- vague -- without a name...

And when I vrake to mountains white in snow

What is this dread thet comes and vill not go?

He C

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iiomoranda from the Mark Probert Seances ~ a remarkable trance medium whose
communicators «re often quoted in RR and Flying Roll. We can now supply parts I to
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CONCERNING "MEMORANDA FROM THB MARK P. SRANONS" :

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The communications (of the trance controls) are mainly concerned
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